Linux-Hardware Digest #319, Volume #10 Tue, 25 May 99 08:13:24 EDT
Contents:
Re: High speed serial board (Dan Oelke)
FDD Tape Drives (Kari Suomela)
Re: MCA and Linux ?!? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux FREEZES when using net (Kamil Toman)
Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset) ("Jose M. Urena")
Any luck with 9-track AKSystems (or similar) tape drive? (Leonid A. Broukhis)
ASUS P2BD vs. SuperMicro P6DBE (Maxim Bazhenov)
Processor in IBM ThinkPad? (Allin Cottrell)
Re: HP Deskjet 693C (Daniele Bernardini)
Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Scanjet Plus Accessories ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sound Card and HP-OmniBook 4150 (Michael Bierenfeld)
SMP safe hardware (Jorgen Austvik)
HP Deskjet 693C (Rafael Lepra)
Re: new install, VERY slow... (Jeff Mitchell)
Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset) (Peter Stein)
MOUSE Config !! ("Juan Antonio")
Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW? (Patrick Colbeck)
Re: Hard drive flipping bits! (fred smith)
Re: Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem ("Gene Heskett")
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From: Dan Oelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: High speed serial board
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:09:57 -0500
I was talking 128 kilobits per second.
(aka - exactly twice the speed of a DS0 channel
that I needed to monitor, but the FPGA that was
spitting this out couldn't easily get to a 115200 bps
solution)
Thanks for the pointers to Byterunner and Equinox!
Dan
Cokey de Percin wrote:
>
> Paul Rae wrote:
> >
> > We use many of the 4 & 8 port Equinox serial cards without any
problems.
> >
> > see www.equinox.com - i think
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > When you say 128Kbps
> >
> > are you thinking 128Kilobytes a second ??? or are you thinking
128Kilo
> > bits
> > a second....
> >
> > Big difference !!!
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > Dan Oelke wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >
> > >I have a hardware system (that I can't change) that spits out
> > >data an async serial stream at 128kbps. Of course, a standard
> > >serial port only does 115.2kbps.
> > >
> > >Does anyone know of a board that works with x86 Linux and
> > >can do 128kbps (or even 256kbps?) and might be readily
> > >available??? I'ld love to make a CompUSA run tonight
> > >(in the Minneapolis area) and get this thing working.
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >Dan
>
> Take a look at www.ByteRunner.com. Well built, fast and inexpesive.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Suomela)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Suomela)
Subject: FDD Tape Drives
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 02:36:50 GMT
Monday May 24 1999 19:13, Adam J wrote to All:
AJ> think it's an HP 250MB) into my linux box. I run RedHat 5.0, and
AJ> it
AJ> says that
AJ> the kernel will support the drive but that it isn't a RedHat
AJ> supported
Ftape should support a standard FD tape drive ok.
KS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MCA and Linux ?!?
Date: 25 May 1999 03:03:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in comp.os.linux.hardware:
CdP>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I have heard that it is now possible to run Linux on a PS/2 with micro
>> channel architecture. Has anyone ever attempted this installation? This
>> machine of mine comes without (!) CD-ROM, has 8MB of RAM and has a
>> 212MB SCSI HDD. I welcome any ideas, recommendation, sites, etc.
>>
CdP>The base 2.2.X kernel supports MCA. There are also patches for the 2.0
CdP>kernels, but I don't know where you'd get them. You don't say what kind
CdP>of PS/2 you have or if you're on a network. If you have one of the SCSI
CdP>MCA boxes such as Model 90, 77 or 95, you could plug an old SCSI CDROM
CdP>in just for the install; if on a network you should be able to do an
CdP>ftp or nfs install. The support is pretty good for the standard IBM
CdP>hardware. I have two mod 77s and a mod 95 running on RH 5.0 & 5.2. Two
CdP>have 2.0 kernels, but I set them up over a year ago and I don't know
CdP>where I got the patches and I don't believe I even have the patches any more.
CdP>One of the 5.0 boxes has a 2.2.3 kernel where I just downloaded, compiled
CdP>and ran - work great and hasn't been down since. So the answer is yes it's
CdP>available and works. How you can install it is another question.
You can find scsi driver and some installation tips at
http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/default.htm. If you can get a scsi cdrom,
installation should be a breeze. I'haven't been able to make X work, but
with only 8MB you shouldn't even try.
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From: Kamil Toman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux FREEZES when using net
Date: 25 May 1999 08:42:16 GMT
The problem is:
- if the net is used "normally" everything is OK
- if it is used intensively [like local ftp], in a few minutes, the
whole system freezes [badly -- nothing works -- no console switching,
no disk operations, not even SysMagicKeys (only alt-ptrscrn-b ;)]
rtl8139.c:v1.04 9/22/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
rtl8139.html
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x6000, IRQ 10, [....]
wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
eth1: WD80x3 at 0x280,[...] WD8003, IRQ 3, shared memory at 0xd0000
-0xd1fff.
Problem appeared on Debian 2.1 Slink, still exists on Debian 2.2 Potato.
System is running kernel 2.2.9,
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
Does anybody know how to fix this ?
Kamil
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From: "Jose M. Urena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:38:59 -0400
rather than applying the UDMA patch you can try one of the followings
hdparm -Tt -c1 -X32 /dev/hda
hdparm -Tt -c1 -X34 /dev/hda
hdparm -Tt -c1 -X64 /dev/hda
hdparm -Tt -c1 -X66 /dev/hda
see which is better for you
or
download the latest dev kernel.
the new UDMA and USB drivers are finally part of the dev kernel.
Simone Piccardi wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the same problem with this board (and I'm using 2.2.9). At boot
> time linux say me that it find a non standard PCI-IDE interface (or
> something similar, I have the PC at home and I forgot to take with me
> the note), and I cannot use DMA. But I need a patch or is just possible
> to use hdparm to do the work?
> Thank you in advance
> --
> Simone Piccardi
> Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
> The answer is: "NO!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonid A. Broukhis)
Subject: Any luck with 9-track AKSystems (or similar) tape drive?
Date: 25 May 1999 08:44:49 GMT
I've got an old AKSystems 9-track tape drive that uses a so called
PCI-100 (no relation) interface: an 8-bit ISA card with 2 wide ribbon
cable connectors. The only software I have is for MS-DOS and on
5-inch floppies and I'm afraid that even if I find a place to read them,
it will only be to know that they are unreadable. Unfortunately, this
drive is the only one that suits me, because I need to read 800 bpi tapes,
and all newer 9-track tape drives only support 1600 bpi and up.
I have the description of the interface, so if there exists a driver
(or a user space program using ioperm()) that works with a similar
interface - I presume Overland Data TC-50M, TX-8, or TXi-16; or
Catamount ATC-8 or ATC-16 be quite similar - I'd be very grateful
for a pointer.
Thanks,
Leo
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From: Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS P2BD vs. SuperMicro P6DBE
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:03:34 +0000
I am planing to buy a dual P-III system to use with Linux (RedHat) and
I am deciding now
between two motherboards: ASUS P2BD and SuperMicro P6DBE. It looks like
they have pretty
similar features, however P6DBE is less expensive (by about $70). Are
these two motherboards
both compatible with Linux? Does anybody has any good/bad experience
with any of them
while running Linux? Thanks a lot for any advice.
maxim
P.S. Please, replay also to my e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Processor in IBM ThinkPad?
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 23:31:49 -0400
I have a ThinkPad 390E, model 2626 WF1. The IBM specs say it has
a PII 333Mhz processor, but on booting up Linux (2.2.6) says:
Detected 331712470 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 330.96 BogoMIPS
Memory: 128416k/131008k available (672k kernel code, 408k reserved,
1480k data,
32k init)
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 0a
^^^^^^^
Anyone know what's happening here?
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC
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From: Daniele Bernardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 693C
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:56:53 +0200
Rafael Lepra wrote:
>
> I' new in linux.
>
> Does anybody know where I can find drivers for this printer in order to
> make it work within SuSE 6.0
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Rafael Lepra
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
They are in Ghostscript5.50 which you can download from
ftp.suse.com under /suse_update/special/ghostscript,
then you can use cdj670 as device.
I have a HP670C and the best settings for my printer are:
GS_FEATURES="-dBitsPerPixel=32 -dPapertype=3 -dQuality=1"
GS_RESOL=600x600
You have to put these lines into your /etc/apsfilterrc file.
The option papertype=3 (which correspond to glossy paper)
is needed since the drivers are not yet calibrated.
Good luck,
Daniele
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP?
Date: 24 May 1999 17:29:24 -0500
Reply-To: "J.L.M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You should have gotten a disk with the card. On it is a DOS program called
>3c5x9cfg. If you run this it will allow you to configure/test the card. Under
>the configure options is the ability to turn off PnP and set static resources.
What about for purists? If you're going to require DOS before you can
setup Linux, you've required MS into the equation. Ugly, ugly. (Not
3com's or Linux' fault really...)
--
James
http://ssdd.conservatory.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Scanjet Plus Accessories
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:11:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hudson) wrote:
> I have a ScanJet Plus scanner that I want to use
with SuSE 6.0 &
> kernel 2.0.36 on my PC. I need to know what
interface card I need to
> get for it. It is some type of parallel port
card - NOT SCSI.
> Thanks,
> Robert Hudson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
The Scanjet Plus needs a proprietary Interface
Card which at the old times was included in the
package. I am not aware of any working substitute
card.
Karl-Georg Schon
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From: Michael Bierenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card and HP-OmniBook 4150
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:05:57 +0000
Hi all,
just installed SUSE 6.0.1 Kernel 2.2.9 on this notebook. All went fine.
But :
- Does anybody have some information about the SoundCard ? I know the
Graphic Card is a NeoMagic "Whatever". The Driver is supported with
XSVGA. Works fine if you use the saX - utility provided with this
Distro. I have not tried to use XF86Setup.
The M$ SystemInfo claims that its a "NeoMagic Magic Wave 3DX"
The Bios Settings are :
SB E/A Adresse 220h
WSS E/A Adresse 530h
AdLib E/A Adresse 388h
IRQ# 7
1. DMA : 3
2. DMA : 1
Is it a SB-compatible, AdLib or Windows Sound System ? After searching
various Web-Pages, HOWTOS and News-Groups I was unable to hear some
sounds. After compiling SB into the Kernel the driver states that this
is a old card "8-Bit". Windows Sound System failed to use IRQ 7 and so
on....
Please advice (If possible)
Kind regards
Michael
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From: Jorgen Austvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMP safe hardware
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:25:54 +0200
I have read about different problems (hangs) with different hardware
(Adaptec 2940UW, 3c905b) on Linux SMP computers.
Can anyone point me to a site that has information about what Linux
hardware (espesially NIC's) that are SMP safe? (I have looked for a
site like this for quite some time, does one exsist at all?)
(Or maybe someone has a recomandation, that they know works well?)
Best Regards, J�rgen
_____________________________________________________________
Student, Computer Science, Norwegian University of Technology
austvik(at)stud.ntnu.no http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~austvik
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From: Rafael Lepra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Deskjet 693C
Date: 25 May 1999 04:31:09 GMT
I' new in linux.
Does anybody know where I can find drivers for this printer in order to
make it work within SuSE 6.0
Thank you in advance for your help.
Rafael Lepra
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From: Jeff Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: new install, VERY slow...
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 07:09:45 -0400
bryan wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Jeff Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I've just spent the weekend putting Debian 2.1 on an i386 based machine
> : I pieced together. The installation went extremely slowly, and running
> : virtually anything on it is much slower than (I think) it should be.
>
> : The machine started out as a gateway, and has a motherboard supplied by
> : them circa 1992. It came with a 75mhz pentium chip, but I've put a
> : 100mhz pentium on it and changed a dipswitch on the board to recognize
> : it. I have an old 1G Quantum hard drive, a Sony CD, an old 5 1/4 inch
> : floppy, a Trident video card, and a linksys nic. I also installed the
> : latest version of the bios. It has 40M of simm memory.
>
> : I installed from an official two-cd set, the same cds I used to install
> : on my other (recent vintage) i386 based system. On that system the
> : whole install took a couple of hours. On this old system, it took about
> : 24 hours. Since installing on the old system, it boots really slowly, X
> : runs extremely slow, and everything is just generally as slow as
> : molasses.
>
> sounds like cache is disabled. have you tried resetting bios to
> defaults and then tuning each parm by hand?
>
> : I've played with various bios settings, to no effect.
>
> oh ;-)
I believe I tried that one, but I'll double-check...
>
> try another disk or cdrom? when I had errors on my cdrom reader, it
> was still working but VERY slow. lots of re-reads (retries).
>
Good idea. I can unhook the cdrom, since I don't depend on that for boot.
Unfortunately I don't have another hard disk I can use. Maybe I can at least
unhook it and boot from the rescue disk to see if booting seems to go faster.
How did you determine that you were getting errors?
>
> do you have the cdrom and disk on the same channel? can they both be
> masters, each on their own channel?
>
Actually, for some reason I couldn't get them to live on the same channel as
master and slave, regardless of settings on each, (I tried each combination
of master, slave, and "determine via cable" settings, including each on the
first or second plug on the cable). So I set them both of them up as master
on their own channel.
>
> --
> Bryan
I got this motherboard and case for free, and was told that the bios might be
a little flaky. I upgraded it, however, and haven't seen any flaky behavior
beyond this slow running. It seems like this problem shouldn't be bios
related though. I think your ideas about the drives might be on target.
I'll do some experimentation along these lines...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset)
Date: 24 May 1999 14:59:25 GMT
In article <7i6rig$l39$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
marco viola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Simone Piccardi ha scritto nel messaggio
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Hi,
>>I have the same problem with this board (and I'm using 2.2.9). At boot
>
>
>http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/
>
>ciao
>marco
Since you didn't quote the original post that this poster was responding
to, I can only say that most people are aware of the vanderbilt URL.
Unfortunately the 2.2.9 patch made available there doesn't work 100%.
I can achieve DMA without problems, but any UDMA writes fail. I've
contacted the authors and am waiting to hear from them.
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Juan Antonio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MOUSE Config !!
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:14:42 +0200
I can't config the mouse (Serial Logitech) to use the X-WINDOWS. I try
with XF86config, but no choices works right.
I have installed Red Hat 5.2.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
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From: Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW?
Date: 25 May 1999 12:24:50 +0100
A single SCSI drive will not be much of an improvement if at all over
a single EIDE drive. For a single user system I would normaly
recommend and EIDE drive as its cheaper as fast as SCSI. Where SCSI
really scores is when you have multiple drives chained of a SCSI
controller.
The point about SCSI is that the drives themselves are intelligent as
compared to EIDE drives which are dumb (thats one reason why they are
cheaper - less circuitry). If you have several SCSI drives on a chain
the controller can just say to the first drive get me these blocks of
data then disconnect from the drive and move on to the next and ask it
fro the data, and so on. It can then reconnect to the first drive and
the blocks it wanted will be ready. With an EIDE drive the controller
has to handhold the drive and tell t exactly what to do and so has to
wait till the drive gets it the data before moving on to the next
drive.
Also SCSI can do neat tricks like device to device copying without
going through the system bus. For example two SCSI drives or a SCSI
drive and a tape streamer can copy data between themselves directly
without any hit on the host system CPU (well except for a bit to kick
the copy into life in the first place etc).
This is of course a terrible over-simplification and there are other
pros anc cons but a good rule of thumb is that SCSI drives will
outperform EIDE ones in multiuser systems or where there is more than
one drive.
Pat
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: Hard drive flipping bits!
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 02:26:27 GMT
Andy Bianchi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Really annoying problem:
<snip>
: Unfortunately the system appears to be suffering from
: an intermittent problem where a few bits (it is usually
: just one or two) in a file can become corrupted.
There was a posting a coupla months ago from someone else reporting
similar symptoms, which entirely went away when he replaced his
defective RAM. If you have spare RAM try swapping out the parts one
at a time. If not, go to sunsite, er, ah, I mean... oh I can't remember
the new name, and get MEMtest86 a good RAM diagnostic program and
let it run overnight, or for a day or two.
Fred
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Date: 24 May 99 22:38:11 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Andrew Comech;
AC> On Mon, 24 May 1999 12:42:16 +0100, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
>>Your best shot are external modems, I've never heard about any
>>external winmodem.
AC> Go buy an external modem with USB interface and _have fun_!
AC> (Just in case: this is _only_ to enrich your experience; the
AC> piece of junk is not going to work under Linux.)
Ahh, but thats being worked on. I was just over to the 2.3.x sites, and
saw that USB is one of the things being worked on as we speak. 6 months
for a stable kernel with USB maybe.
Cheers, Gene
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